If you are interested in School Gardens but cannot obtain permission to create a garden at your school site because of summer maintenance issues, why not use edible plants as a topic to teach Science and Health Science? Here is a link to a site that my former PhD student, Dr. Leila Graves, and I created. It was tested at a local STEM elementary school with great success. https://sites.google.com/site/edibleplantscurriculum/home
Integrating quantitative reasoning during an ecology lesson on life tables (High School)
Teaching evolution using a model of the influenza virus (High School)
Making interdisciplinary field trips work--standards-based! (Middle School)
Integrating social studies and science by teaching mummy science (Middle School)
If you are interested in School Gardens but cannot obtain permission to create a garden at your school site because of summer maintenance issues, why not use edible plants as a topic to teach Science and Health Science? Here is a link to a site that my former PhD student, Dr. Leila Graves, and I created. It was tested at a local STEM elementary school with great success.
https://sites.google.com/site/edibleplantscurriculum/home